Minnette v. Warner’s Empirical Analysis
997 F.2d 1023 · 1993
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 15 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Cottman Transmission Systems, Inc. v. Martino (1994), Lucas v. Miles (1996)
21 federal appellate · 15 district · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Naartex Consulting Corp. v. Watt · Clark v. Florida · Lyell Theatre Corp. v. Loews Corp. · Romandette v. Weetabix Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The district court of a district in which is filed a case laying venue in the wrong division or district shall dismiss, or if it be in the interest of justice, transfer such case to any district or division in which it could have been brought.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether to dismiss or transfer a case 'lies within the sound discretion of the district court.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“harsh remedy to be utilized only in extreme situations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.